The 12th Annual Neurocritical Care Society (NCS) Meeting will be held this year in Seattle on 11-14 September. There will be a comprehensive session on intracerebral hemorrhage, including reviews of exciting recent advances in the translational, epidemiological and clinical areas.

Friday’s focus on ICH will provide cutting-edge science, clarity in the practice of complex clinical problems, and maybe even stir up a little controversy. Our MISTIE/CLEAR Lead Investigator, Dr. Daniel F. Hanley, will be speaking as well, on interventional treatment so you don't want to miss it. Click here for details.

In collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Office of Continuing Medical Education, we now provide continuing medical education (CME) credits, specifically AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, for completing the online MISTIE-III investigator training courses. You may earn up to 9 hours, but you must take a specific set of courses. You must also be a registered user of this site.

We are delighted to report that the first patient has now enrolled in the MISTIE III intracerebral hemorrhage trial! In the race to be the first out-of-the-gate, the honor goes to Hartford Hospital.

Dr. Inam Kureshi and his team at Hartford enrolled patient #1 at 17:02 on 30-Dec-2013, marking the official start of the study period. Congratulations go out to the Hartford team which includes the coordinator, Sara Jasak, RN, and the neurointensivist, Dr. Robert Brown. This was the 12th patient to be screened at this site since the site was activated on 11-December. We are especially proud of how Sara Jasak has entered the clinical data in near real-time; just a few days into the acute treatment and we already have 54 final case form pages with no open queries! Way to go, Sara!

It's almost time to start screening and enrolling patients in MISTIE III! The Reading Center has put together some instructions for uploading images to the Vision EDC directly from your PACS system. Click "read more" to view the instructions and download the files for a quick reference.